In most negotiations, each party makes an offer and then the sides come to an agreement somewhere between the two figures. The final agreed upon amount will vary, but it is generally safe to say that the figure will be no lower than the bottom figure and no higher than [...]
Following up on Chad’s post, the Trial Urban District Assessment, or “TUDA” (which is not much of “trial” anymore, since it goes back to 2003) is really the single most interesting report going. State-level NAEP results are useful but they’re also yoked to overall state economic conditions and [...]
Today’s view comes to us from Professor Edward Hsieh’s classroom. He’s an economics professor at the California State University, Los Angeles (He’s also Education Sector intern Tiffany Hsiesh’s father). Nice umbrellas!
California State University, Los Angeles
Keep those views coming! [...]
States are required by law to measure the academic progress of their students, but they use very different measurements and have an incentive to make their schools look good, so we can’t quite trust the results. For decades now, we’ve had national and state educational report cards that take a [...]
For a liberal, it’s hard to imagine a better set of obituaries than those written for former Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell, who died on January 1st of this year. While everyone mentioned his patrician upbringing and quirky personality, and many noted his efforts to slow nuclear proliferation, Pell was [...]
In its continued quest for topicality this season, The Office turned to the issue of college tuition for its episode last Thursday. In a sequence so awkward that even Larry David would cringe, Michael Scott (Steve Carell) had to explain to a room full of high school seniors that [...]
Last night 60 Minutes opened with an Anderson Cooper piece on the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), exploring its methods, explaining that President Obama wants to replicate it in cities all across the country, re-visiting the children Ed Bradley met there in 2005, and touting HCZ’s remarkable results found [...]
Lauren Edelson is a smart, high-achieving high school senior. She’s been visiting some of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation, trying to imagine herself at each of these schools. Unfortunately, she’s been a little underwhelmed:
Back when I was a junior, before I’d printed off an application or [...]
Is the higher education pendulum swinging away from athletics spending and toward academic investment? At one New York university, the books beat out the football program. (Pearls of Wisdom)
Which incentives problem is the U.S. Department of Education tackling now? Hint: It’s [...]
This week New York City announced that it was closing four public schools. It’s rather unusual to hear of a school system closing schools for any reason, let alone justifying it on academic, as opposed to population and enrollment-related, grounds. Yet, that’s exactly what they did. In a detailed [...]
There’s been a lot of different higher education things going on lately, so here’s a few figures to consider:
80 Score out of 100 given to the Direct Loan servicing in 2008 on a test of customer satisfaction given by CFI Group. (Scores represent satisfaction, satisfaction relative to expectations, [...]A common argument used by advocates of the death penalty is that the threat of capital punishment serves as a crime deterrent because the fear of such a harsh sentence scares potential perpetrators from breaking the law. That logic does not work for crime, so why should [...]
While Congress has become pretty thoroughly professionalized in recent decades, state legislatures are still home to some genuinely eccentric people. Back when I was working for the Indiana General Assembly, one member (and not the member who was, no lie, a radio psychic) became convinced that it was crucially important for [...]
Seniors who graduated with student loans in 2008 faced a rough job market, as the U.S. economy started heading into a recession and unemployment began rising. But according to an analysis of borrowing data released yesterday, these recent entrants to the labor market had an added disadvantage—large levels of debt.
According [...]
Check out the view from Kimberly Wilson’s classroom. Wilson is a 7th Grade math teacher at Plymouth Educational Center in Detroit, Michigan:
Plymouth Educational Center, Detroit, Michigan
If you look closely, you can see Detroit’s skyline [...]
On Dec. 11, 2001, the University of Maryland, College Park finalized a 10-year deal with Ralph Friedgen, its new football coach who had just helped the team qualify for a major bowl game. That deal wiped out a six-year agreement signed just over a year before for a new [...]
In the past week, students at various University of California campuses have demonstrated against the Regents’ decision to raise fees 32 percent by next fall, beginning with a 15 percent mid-year increase, by holding protests outside administrative offices and barricading themselves in school buildings. About 100 students have been arrested. [...]
What does an Indiana lawsuit teach us about the bizarre incentives school districts use to reward teacher performance when there are no incentives to reward teacher performance? (National Council on Teacher Quality)
If traditional public schools need school resource officers, do charter school kids require the same [...]
Second Grade Teacher Ashley Tugman (also fiancé to ES’s Forrest Hinton) sends in two views from her classroom at Noyes Elementary School in northeast Washington D.C. Since her class borders the playground, the “shade-drawn view” is a more regular occurance.
[...] I like to tell people I majored in public policy, but the truth is right there on the diploma. It says “Interdisciplinary Studies,” which is another way of saying I created my own major by picking courses from a number of university departments. I took some Economics, dabbled in Political [...]
“Use student achievement to measure teachers” is a catch-phrase or headline you might expect to hear or see working on education policy inside the beltway, but it wasn’t exactly what I expected to see waking up Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa. But, lo and behold, teacher evaluations were the focus [...]
College costs keep rising. Navigating these rough waters, should states choose Scylla (raising taxes) or Charybidis (raising tuition)? (Center for College Affordability and Productivity)
Even ESPN calls poker a “sport.” But as more students develop a gambling addiction, should colleges come to the [...]
The University of California system is reeling. Crushed by the recession and the total collapse of governance in the Golden State, the UC system just raised student tuition by a mind-boggling 32 percent. A few weeks ago, New York Times Magazine interviewer Deborah Solomon sat down with UC Chanchelor Mark [...]
If you have a moment today, we hope you will take part in a short survey about the Quick and the Ed to help us determine how we’re doing—it won’t take long (we promise). Plus, as a “thank you” for completing our survey, you’ll be entered for a chance to [...]
In the course of presenting a very interesting paper on international college rankings at an accountability conference I co-hosted yesterday, Ben Wildavsky made an observation that I strongly endorse: international competition in higher education isn’t a zero-sum game. In fact, I think there’s a good argument that America [...]
A new report by the Center for American Progress on district-union partnerships to extend school time profiles three models, including Brooklyn Generation. More about Brooklyn Generation and the Generation Schools model, which extends time for students but not for teachers, in this ES report and on our online [...]
This fall George Washington University became the first college in the country to dole out athletic scholarships for squash. Not exactly known as a sport for the masses, the school is now handing out $10-20,000 squash scholarships to Exeter grads, a move that is, apparently, worth a complimentary [...]
The Washington Post reports today that the Virginia Department of Education will study minority participation in gifted education programs in the state. As the press release notes,
Data reported by school divisions to VDOE show that while African-Americans make up 26 percent of the statewide student population, only 12 [...]
I already outlined a few interesting data tidbits that are in Federal Student Aid’s annual report (large PDF), but the report also has some information that is worth taking a closer look at in its own post. One of these areas is student loan default rates .
Loan default [...]
Education Next has a new story by David Bass about possible fraud in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). As EdNext is wont to do, the article leads with a provocative graph, this one purporting to show the rise in free and reduced-price lunches as the percentage of children [...]
Today’s “view” is from sunny California’s Fresno High School. Ms. Delaine Zody, who teaches marketing, yearbook, and multimedia at Fresno sent in today’s photo via flickr.
Fresno High School, Fresno, California
Federal Student Aid (FSA), the office within the U.S. Department of Education that handles loans and grants, recently published its fiscal year 2009 report. This document provides a lot of interesting information about the general state of federal postsecondary assistance and also rates the office’s performance over the past [...]
Generations Schools has found a way to redesign teachers’ work, ending the isolated classroom, enabling ongoing teacher collaboration and planning, and giving teachers time to learn from each other and to learn from their work. It has extended its school year to 200 days for students—20 more than the national [...]
First of all kudos to the Dept. of Education staff for putting out these regulation and largely sticking to a reform agenda while making reasonable adjustments. While some technical details caught my attention like the myopic calculation of ensuring that education is a funding priority, I found myself agreeing with [...]
Education Week’s District Dossier blog wrote last week about a new report on the effectiveness of desegregation programs in improving student achievement, stating:
After examining the nation’s eight remaining desegregation programs that enable disadvantaged students to cross school district boundary lines to attend more-affluent, suburban public schools, the researchers [...]
Chad Aldeman, Kris Amundson, Renee Rybak, Ben Miller, Bill Tucker, Rob Manwaring, Erin Dillon, Kevin Carey, Elena Silva, guest blogger
